#Virtus fluid mask skin
#Virtus fluid mask professional
#Virtus fluid mask series

The first should be done in a couple of weeks and I'll post it when it's completed.

#Virtus fluid mask series

I'm working on a series of composited images. I think you can do similar with refine edge, but old habits die hard. As you move the levels sliders ou can watch the mask choking in or spreading against the underlying layer. Slightly blur the mask and apply levels from the main menu. There's an old trick for fine-tuning the edge of a mask that's too harsh or shows halos. Using a duplicate of the extracted layer made prior to choking, I place it below the choked layer in multiply mode. If I'm extracting a subject from a background that isn't compatible with the target background, in terms of luminosity, I filter the mask with minimum or maximum (choke or spread) to retract it a bit. That hair mask I made above comes with a little trick attached. Match color is great for making the image appear compatible in term of color pallet, I use it all the time. Maybe some transparency brushed in with the eraser tool set low and soft?

Foreground colors tend to be more vivid, and background tends to be more desaturated as the distance increases. I might use the burn tool to calm down the look of compositing and get the lighting more believable. Same for lighting and shading adjustments - brighter to punch the subject and often darker to subordinate the background. I tend to go next to the brightness/contrast sliders to make the layers the way I like them, usually more vivid in the foreground to punch the subject and lower contrast to subordinate or separate the distance the background. Harvey Bogart - photo-bomb at Rick's Caféįor hair wisps, watch the 3rd one, lower right called 'hair masking':Īfter the mask is made and we are back in Photoshop, what are some of the best tools or techniques for blending the composites images together in a natural way? I realize this is not a fuzzy hair photo, but the background was cluttered and there were several areas not too clearly defined in darkness and iphone noise. Watching the effects of remask tool strokes on the grey background as I apply the strokes to the other images is what made it easy. I can quickly clean up the lines on the near zero contrast dark half of the image with a few brush strokes. I know the detail of the hairs coming out of his ears does not show here, but it's well extracted on the lighted side of the image without extraction outlines. I fiddled with my own plug-in shortcut from the installation files, and it then worked on CS6-64 Note: the Topaz ReMask3 I had was not listed as compatible for over CS5 and would not show up under my filters list with a normal installation. This removes all the guess work from the 'contaminated' areas.

I could use the tools on any screen, and watch the effects on the other screens. For cleaning up the difficult areas, I found it easiest to work in the 4-image split screen mode. The tools are simple, fast and effective. I had several areas of low contrast that had to be computed by Topaz.

I went through their basic tutorials with a difficult, dark and noisy iphone photo in CS6 to challenge these tools. I answered very kindly ( read again my post) and told you my experience with masks and at the end I don't understand your attack?Īnyway, wish you the best and good luck. I think most people that habituate the digital forum are beyond tired of all the posturing that goes on in here.ĭid I write something similar that you are 'unprofessional idiot' ? If you don't get quality results with a plug in, state your case for why, and then shut your mouth.

#Virtus fluid mask professional

I'm getting wonderful results with Remask in my work flow, and for you to tell me I'm less than professional for using it is not only rude, it's stupid. I think the plug ins are pretty much like any other tool in the box, you get what you want from them and move on. Responses like that are what's killing this forum.

You guys pretty much always sing the same tune, which is if you don't do it my way, you're a moron. There are a number of people on MM that post in here in a similar fashion. What you are telling me is that I'm an unprofessional idiot.

#Virtus fluid mask skin

If you want real top professional results with perfect seamless blending, one and only way step by step pixel extraction of skin edges and then softening of skin edges and color decontamination. įor my work I never use any plug in masks, simply it doesn't work. With some files you can get some decent results with these masks but again even these files will have some 'halo edges'. I have tried one zillion times to make easy extraction, with one zillion settings, masks, Vertus, Topaz, etc and no way for top professional results. Do not expect too much with plug-ins, you already know that.